Study of Student Permit Holders

A review of IRCC student permit application trends

This is a report showing trends in international studen applications to Canada. Most of the data shows numbers from all education levels, with the exception of the data that highlights specific institutions.

The report draws on some public IRCC data and some special requests made by CICan

Overview

Students apply to study in many Canadian cities from all across the world. While there are some main markets as will be shown in this report, the applicant crop comes from a diverse list of countries.

The below animation shows the diversity of origin countries of study permit applicants headed for Canadian colleges.

Rankings

The first of the below charts shows countries of origin for all study permit applicants for all education levels

The second chart shows countries of origin for study permit holders in college/CEGEP education levels only, using sign date numbers and imputed randomized numbers for those with supressed values.

The below chart shows city destination for study permit holders in college/CEGEP education levels only, using sign date numbers and imputed randomized numbers for those with supressed values.

The below chart shows city destination for study permit holders in university levels only, using sign date numbers and imputed randomized numbers for those with supressed values.

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This is a chart showing the movement among the top 10 institutions by student permit approvals

The number of approvals (and also applications) is very low prior to 2014.

Some institutions (including larger ones) have been left out of this dataset by the provider

Institution tables

The below tables show the top institutions by student permit applications (2019 numbers)

The bottom table shows the top 5 countries (by total applications over the time studied) for each of these top 10 institutions

Hover over the total number to see further details

Some institutions (including larger ones) have been left out of this dataset by the provider

Institution	Total
Conestoga College	13624
Centennial College	9277
Lambton College	6377
George Brown College	4933
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	3713
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	3369
Langara College	3026
Cape Breton University	2982
Fleming College	2676
Thompson Rivers University	2469

Institution	Country of citizenship	Total
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	India	2660
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	Nepal	280
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	Nigeria	136
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	Honduras	42
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	Ethiopia	34
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology	Total	3369
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	India	3166
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	Philippines	181
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	Bangladesh	114
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	People’s Republic of China	46
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	Sri Lanka	25
Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology College Drive Campus North Bay ON	Total	3713
Cape Breton University	India	1791
Cape Breton University	People’s Republic of China	244
Cape Breton University	Nigeria	202
Cape Breton University	Bangladesh	137
Cape Breton University	Rwanda	137
Cape Breton University	Total	2982
Centennial College	India	4387
Centennial College	Philippines	900
Centennial College	Nigeria	513
Centennial College	People’s Republic of China	418
Centennial College	Iran	358
Centennial College	Total	9277
Conestoga College	India	11581
Conestoga College	Nigeria	617
Conestoga College	Iran	247
Conestoga College	Philippines	145
Conestoga College	People’s Republic of China	133
Conestoga College	Total	13624
Fleming College	India	2170
Fleming College	Socialist Republic of Vietnam	233
Fleming College	Nigeria	47
Fleming College	Philippines	34
Fleming College	Bangladesh	33
Fleming College	Total	2676
George Brown College	India	1186
George Brown College	Iran	766
George Brown College	Socialist Republic of Vietnam	522
George Brown College	People’s Republic of China	405
George Brown College	Korea, Republic of	203
George Brown College	Total	4933
Lambton College	India	5621
Lambton College	Nepal	150
Lambton College	Philippines	94
Lambton College	Brazil	74
Lambton College	Jamaica	72
Lambton College	Total	6377
Langara College	India	1640
Langara College	People’s Republic of China	221
Langara College	Socialist Republic of Vietnam	215
Langara College	Iran	197
Langara College	Brazil	117
Langara College	Total	3026
Thompson Rivers University	India	855
Thompson Rivers University	Nigeria	361
Thompson Rivers University	Bangladesh	175
Thompson Rivers University	People’s Republic of China	162
Thompson Rivers University	Kenya	112
Thompson Rivers University	Total	2469
Total	Total	86239

Predictions

These are predictions using multiple linear regression on time and various variables

This data shows study permit holders for all education levels using general IRCC data from table TR007

This shows the same as above, for the top 15 countries from East and South Asia

 

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A report by Peder Soeraas

CICan Senior Research Analyst

PSoeraas@collegesinstitutes.ca